The Shuttlecock

He is a gamecock, and, in fighting trim,

Claes Oldenburg and Coojse van Bruggen’s Shuttlecocks, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO

There are not many birds that equal him.

From Carolyn Wells’ The Shuttlecock (1901)

A Glistening Armadillo

The ancient owls’ nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,

Moshe Safdie’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, MO

a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down…

Moshe Safdie’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, MO

From Elizabeth Bishop’s The Armadillo

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.

Geronimo quoted in Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

Fordham Park, New Cross, Lewisham, SE14

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Crazy Horse quoted in Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)